September 28, 2008	Sunday	Ramazan 27, 1429

LARKANA, Sept 27: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court ordered on Friday registration of an FIR against Superintendent of Police (investigation) Dadu Sikandar Magsi and one Jamil Siyal for kidnapping a businessman.

The bench comprising Justice Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi and Justice Farrukh Zia G. Shaikh asked the deputy inspector-general of police, Hyderabad, to conduct an inquiry and submit its report within a fortnight.

Advocate Kalpna Devi on behalf of petitioner Talib Hussain Zangijo, a resident of village Bero Khan Gadhi of Khairpur Nathan Shah, said that Sikandar Magsi and his accomplices kidnapped the petitioner’s son, Ashique Ali Zangijo, from his house on July 12.

According to the petition, Sikandar Magsi and Jamil Siyal had illegally taken possession of Ashique’s shop in Ghozo taluka Mehar.

Sikandar Magsi was also accused of threatening to implicate Ashique in false cases.

The petition said when Talib Hussain approached the DPO (operation) Dadu and the SHO of Ghozo police station, they refused to register an FIR against Sikandar Magsi.

The case was adjourned till Oct 22.

JOB LETTERS: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court directed on Friday the secretary education of Sindh to issue appointment letters to three people who had been working as night watchmen in different primary schools of Larkana on the place of their fathers since their deaths.

The bench comprising Justice Syed Mahmood Alam Rizvi and Justice Farrukh Zia G. Shaikh said in the verdict that the defiance of the directives would amount to contempt of court.

Ghulam Mustafa Lashari and two others in a petition filed through their lawyer, Habibullah Ghouri, said that since the deaths of their fathers they had been performing duties as night watchmen in various primary schools.

They said the executive district officer (education) and some other senior officials had promised to issue their appointment letters after lifting of a ban on jobs by the government.

The petitioners served from two to five years without salaries. They filed the petition on Sept 18 last year.

The petitioners applied for the posts on ‘son quota’ per section 11 of the Sindh Civil Servants (appointment, promotion and transfer) rules.

Education officials who had been appearing in the case had assured the court that the cases of the petitioners had been sent to the secretary.

According to record, 137 appointments had been made in the education department of Larkana in 2007.

The EDO (education) on the last date of hearing stated that though he was the appointment authority up to BPS-11, but practically he was only a signing machine and all appointment letters were issued from the Secretariat.

The court observed that 137 new appointments were made without giving preference to the petitioners by virtue of the section 11-A of Sindh Civil Servants rules.